The Pioneer Ships

Starship Ariel

The whereabouts of Starship Ariel has been lost since the days of the fall. Many explorers have sought her out never to be heard from again. Some suspect that she was lost in the Ghost Seas far to the west of Gavreel City.

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Post Fall

Starship Cassiel

Starship Cassiel was thought lost for many centuries having been completely obliterated in its descent during the Fall. The canyon it carved across the northern lands eventually become the sites of many fiefdoms using the unique geographic structures and ruined ship remnants as foundations for their uniquely designed castles. Shielding them from the harsh environment and potential attackers.

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House of the Royal Children

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Starship Dina

Starship Dina was renown for the countless arcane experiments it carried out over the centuries. As the moral integrity of its scientists waned they gave birth to countless abominations that should never have seen the light of day.

The location of this ship has yet to be uncovered but as it was running low on space to house its monstrosities they eventually started to secret them away to the other seven Pioneer Ships. Its believed that 75% of the worlds known monsters and subhuman races share their origins within the bowls of this hell hole.

Some believe that the ship could lie far to the south of the Eidolon Woods. Its wicked contents escaped into the world after the fall where they began to rapidly multiply through out the wilds of the frontier making the world nearly uninhabitable, or at least it would have been if not for the efforts of the Paladin Order and Necromancer Sect.

The intense gathering of monsters to what remains of some of the other Starships suggest that at least some of the monsters released from their captivity were programmed to attack the other ships and consume their populace, or worse turn them into something more than human.

Pre Fall

House of the Scientific Society.

Post Fall

Birthplace of monsters.

Starship Gavreel

Gavreel, today, is most notable for being among the most fortified cities in the world. What with it being located between the Obsidian Mountains, and the Charcoal Sea.

The regions surrounding Gavreel are collectively known as the Dead lands, due to intense density of specters and innumerable wild undead freely roaming within its borders.

Gavrel City AKA The Palace of Tombs, became the first seat of power to the Inner Council, which eventually lead to it being sealed away during the 5th Paladin Crusade.

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First seat of power for the Inner Council.

Sister city Azrael.

Site of dungeon Limbo.

Site of the 5th Paladin Crusade.

Starship Raphael

Where at least a handful of pioneer ships managed to survive wrecking into the planets surface, Starship Raphael buried itself nose first into the Desert of Limbo killing its populace of the ship and the lands instantly.

For some inexplicable reason though, the ship avoided complete detonation. It is most renown these days for how 3 of its 8 propulsion engines have spent the centuries since the fall spewing blue jets of fire miles into the sky liquefying most of the surrounding deserts into mirror like glass and bathing the region in periodic molten glass storms.

As if all of this weren't terrible enough the ships malfunctioning star drive cause time distortions bubbles to ripple throughout the region. Time there can be sped up or reduced in terrifying ways at a moments notice. The monsters drawn to this hellish environment are warped aberrations where its now impossible to tell what kind of creatures they were originally.

This region is considered to be completely uninhabitable by natural humans.

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Post Fall

Death.

Starship Phanuel

Not much is remembered of Starship Phanuel. It is most renown as being the only Starship that managed to avoid crashing into the planets surface. It did however suffer a massive explosion in space that left 75% of its bays completely gutted.

Its believed that there were no survivors, but its perfect geosynchronous orbit following Luna suggest that there is more going on there than can be observed from the planets surface.

Sometimes called by the name Demon Star for the arcane red light the ruins give off that affects certain species of monsters in... interesting ways.

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Post Fall

The star that refused to fall.

Starship Azrael

Starship Azrael (later Azrael City) is renown for having played a key role in almost every major post fall historical event in the world.

Azrael City lies between the Emerald Plains and the underground waterways that feed into The Forest Evermore, making it a very desirable location with easy access to boundless natural resources critical to life on the frontier.

Starship Azrael became infamous for being the site where the Demon Lich Anubis rose to power during the Pioneering Era eventually birthing the Necromancer Sect.

After the fall Azrael City, despite its pristine condition (relatively speaking), became dominated for centuries by a powerful host of monsters who were inexplicably drawn to those lands.

Later the Paladin Order lead their 3rd crusade to cleans Azrael City of the evils that had infested it. Hundreds of lives were sacrificed in order to restore the city to its true potential.

Centuries later the city would again become a critical point of power when it was conquered by The Rüstung Elite. Leading to the eventual construction of the Tower Of Stars.

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Starship that recovered the mummified remains of the entity calling itself Anubis.